Senior Global Commodity Manager

Danaher•Boston, MA

15h•Remote

About The Position

As a global leader in clinical diagnostics, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics has challenged convention to elevate the diagnostic laboratory's role in improving patient health for more than 90 years. Our diagnostic solutions are used in routine and complex clinical testing, and are used in hospitals, reference and research laboratories, and physician offices around the world. Every hour around the world, more than one million tests are run on Beckman Coulter Diagnostics systems, impacting 1.2 billion patients and more than three million clinicians per year. From uncovering the next clinical breakthrough, to rapid and reliable sample analysis, to more rigorous decision making—we are enabling clinicians to deliver the best possible care to their patients with improved efficiency, clinical confidence, adaptive collaboration, and accelerated intelligence. The Senior Global Commodity Manager is responsible for developing and executing the global sourcing and category strategies for the Biochemicals commodity and associated sub commodities across Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, spend responsibility for this role is approximately $234m per year. This role drives cost, quality, service, innovation, sustainability, risk management and supply chain continuity outcomes by partnering cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, R&D, Planning, and Supplier Quality to optimize the end-to-end Biochemical supply base in support of business growth and operational excellence. This position is part of the Global Strategic Procurement team. This role offers remote working to ensure a resilient, competitive, and compliant global biochemicals supply base that supports product availability worldwide.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, MBA or Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Engineering, Business, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
12+ years of procurement/sourcing experience in chemicals, biochemicals, or biologics, including strategic sourcing and supplier management.
Experience of sourcing FDA regulated products preferred, 5+ years managing biochemical reagent categories (e.g., antibodies, antigens, enzymes, beads) or operating in a technical role supporting sourcing.
Working knowledge of biological reagents used in immunoassays (or other FDA regulated products) and their impact on product performance, stability, and manufacturing scalability, experience partnering with R&D and Operations to resolve reagent and supplier issues.
Demonstrated expertise in negotiations, contract management, and sourcing events such as RFI/RFP, spend benchmarking, E Tools such as E Auction with ability to evaluate suppliers on technical capability, quality, and total cost using TCO modelling.
Being highly collaborative with such functions as New Product Introduction, R&D, Supplier Development and Quality to build roadmaps and Sourcing Strategies for the Biochem Category and Subcategories.
Ability to travel up to 20%, including domestic and international trips as business needs require.

Nice To Haves

Global sourcing within the life sciences, biotech, or pharmaceutical sectors , specifically involving high‑purity biochemicals, specialty chemicals, or regulated raw materials
Existing senior executive relationships with representative suppliers.
Working collaboratively across large organizations , including spend pooling, joint operating company negotiations, collaboration on risk mitigation strategies.
Managing procurement activities in regulated chemical environments , including compliance with REACH, TSCA, PFAS‑elimination programs, or other relevant chemical‑regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

Develop, define, and execute global category strategies for chemicals/biochemicals, delivering cost reduction, quality, delivery, sustainability goals and supply risk‑mitigation.
Evaluate suppliers, lead competitive events (RFIs/RFPs/auctions), negotiate agreements, drive preferred‑supplier adoption, and manage supplier performance to meet Beckman Coulters needs.
Develop spend analysis, market intelligence, project repository maintenance, financial analysis, budget/price guidance, track /report savings against annual objectives.
Lead without direct authority—guide other functions and collaborate strongly with our R&D / NPI teams to provide strategic direction on supplier selection.
Adopt and use structured continuous‑improvement tools (e.g., Lean, Kaizen, DBS) to improve cost, quality, delivery, inventory, cash, across Beckman Coulter.